Tag Archives: Charlie Rose

twist and shout

Posted on February 18, 2013 by Dave

At its core is a concern for life and security. After the Oslo and Hebron agreements, people eulogized the old dream of a greater Israel, mythical as that was. They have heralded these treaties as tangible signs of Israel’s willingness … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Amona expulsion, Charlie Rose, Daniella Weiss, Dmitry Khavin, George Mitchell envoy, Igal Hecht Hilltops, John Kerry, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Obama visit to Israel, sarah honig | Leave a comment

free publicity

Posted on September 14, 2012 by Dave

Call it a journalistic infomercial. Michael Lewis. That mildly racist tone that came through in his “bearing Greek bonds” series. The ivy league style invidious comparison, and liberal jingoism wrapped in a sugar coated Northeastern style that vaguely tries to … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Barack Obama 2012, Charlie Rose, John Hersey, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Michael Lewis author, Michael Lewis Obama's Way | Leave a comment

coffee,cars and the communal experience

Posted on July 28, 2012 by Dave

Much better than his television series. This is a wrinkle on a what seems a new sort of interview style reality program that takes face to face out of the confines of the studio and into new contexts. Seinfeld’s production … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged alec baldwin, Billy Wilder, Bryan Singer H+, Charlie Rose, Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, jerry seinfeld, Larry avid Curb Your Enthusiasm, Larry David, Larry King now Hulu, Larry King Ora TV, Larry King web television, Marc Maron podcast, Orson Welles, Pablo Picasso, Pauline Kael, Reliance Entertainment India, Seinfeld Larry Eats a Pancake, Tom Hanks electric city Yahoo, Tom Hanks Playtone, Tom Hanks web television, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

Orientalism repackaged

Posted on February 8, 2012 by Dave

The Shafia trial is by any extent, a far more complex process in which the social and larger contexts seemed to outweigh the actual criminal allegations which were never definitively proven, albeit the construction of circumstantial evidence, in sum, was … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Charlie Rose, Christie Blatchford, craig thompson, craig thompson habibi, Duccio, Duccio di Buoninsegna, Harold Bloom, Hegel Philosopher, Jean Leon Gerome, meir kahane, Mel Gibson, mel gibson the passion, Middle East Politics, mohammad shafia, pierre subleyras, Rick Salutin, shafia trial | 1 Comment

hitchens guide to the galaxy

Posted on December 16, 2011 by Dave

To many, he might not be missed, but he left few indifferent. A collision of atheism out of the academy and into the real world. He might have done for atheism what Marcel Duchamp did for art, except in reverse: … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Baruch Spinoza, Charlie Rose, Christopher Hitchens, Friedrich Nietzsche, G.K. Chesterton, Harold Bloom, Marcel Duchamp, Martin Buber, mother teresa, Richard Dawkins, Salman Rushdie, Sam Harris, shmuley boteach | Leave a comment

depersonalization: mission of a yuppie soul

Posted on October 3, 2011 by Dave

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix, angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Adbusters, alan schechner, Allen Ginsberg, Andy Warhol, Barack Obama 2012, Charlie Rose, christopher caudwell, david graeber guardian, Donald Kuspit, Jean Genet, lady gaga occult, Lloyd Blankfein Goldman Sachs, occupy wall street, Patagonia common threads, peter king market socialism, Warren Buffett | Leave a comment

Doin’ the right thing. the white stuff

Posted on March 6, 2011 by Dave

Simple. A simple government.Common Sense. “Family Values” Its a common refrain that wraps up a political agenda into a wider context of right wing reactionary politics in which the apparent simplicity of the message is not detachable from a politics … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Marketing/Advertising/Media | Tagged Alex Spillius, Alexis de Tocqueville, Charlie Rose, Chuck Norris, John Edwards, Keanu Reeves, Michael Medved, Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney, Natalie Portman, Pat Buchanan, Philip Roth, Ron Paul GOP, Sarah Palin, Steve malzberg, tabatha Southey, Tyra Banks, Tyra Banks Show, Yamina Benguigui | 1 Comment

REALITY CHECK: AT THE NEXUS OF DEATH & LOVE

Posted on August 15, 2010 by Dave

“The religion whose savior is born in the humblest circumstances, who during his three year pubic ministry consorted mainly with lowlifes, criminals, publicans and the possessed and whose harrowing death on the cross was, in the words of St. Paul, … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc. | Tagged Andrew Marr, Charles H. Carman, Charlie Rose, Courbet, David Hockney, Donald Posner, Dr. Barnaby Wright, Genevieve Warwick, Giovanni Baglione, Helen Langdon, Howard Hibbard, John Varriano, Jules Janick, Leo Bersoni, Libby Anson, Nicola Hodge, Peter Robb, Philip Neri, Pieter Bruegel, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Richard Phelan, Richard Spear, Roger P. Hinks, Thomas Nashe, Ulysse Dutoit, Velazquez, Walter F. Friedlaender | Leave a comment

SKEPTICALLY UNCERTAIN ABOUT THE CERTAINTY OF DOUBT

Posted on May 9, 2010 by Dave

Certain quotations from Ludwig Wittgenstein’s ”On Certainty” seem to imply that we can doubt everything: each statement that might be true still has some aspects that might make it possible to doubt it. Certainly, the issue of Goldman-Sachs and our … Continue reading →